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B. P. DAGGETT. STOVE PIPE FLANGE AND RETAINER.

No. 346,431. Patented July 27, 1886.v

TlNTTnn STATns PATENT Orrrcn.

ROBERT P. DAGG .ITT, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSlGNOlt OF ONE- HALF TO JAHES B. LIZIUS, OF SAME PLACE.

STOVE-PIPE FLANGE AND RETAlNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346,431, dated July 27,1856.

Application liled February 1!), 1886. Serial No. 192,402.

To all whom, it may conceive:

Be it known that 1, ROBERT P. Daoon'r'r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Combined Stove-Pipe Flange and Retainer, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to provide a device that, while serving as a stove-pipe flange, will prevent the pipe from slipping too far into the flue and obstructing the draft, that will retain the pipe in its proper place after the same has been inserted into the flue-opening, and one that will hold the stove-pipe flange snugly up against the wall and around the pipe.

Heretofore various stove-pipe stops and retainers have been in use, which either proved too complicated or expensive, necessitating the riveting and securing of loops, hooks, or thelike to the pipe,or the walling into the flueopening of peculiarly'construeted thimbles.

My device, which serves at the same time asa stove-pipe flange, stop, and retainer can be used with the common round sheet-iron thimbles.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section through the stove pipe and my combined flange and retainer when the pipe is in position in the flueopening; Fig. 2, a perspective view of the flange proper; Fig. 3, a view of the stop and retaining attachment when made of sheet metal or cast, while Figs. 4t and 5 show the same made of wire.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A is the stove-pipe, T an ordinary stovepipe thimble; B, a stove-pipe flange, such as are in common use.

At one point,b,in the inner periphery of the flange B, the flange is out into and bent so as to receive a hinge or pivot pin, 1, as shown in Fig. 2,which pin P, slipped through a loop formed by cutting and bending the retainingstrap I near its upper end,when made of sheet metal, as shown in Fig. 3, hinges the said retaining-strap to the flange B.

\Vhen the strap 0 is made of wire, the wire is bent and twisted to form an eye or loop to receive the pin P, as shown in Figs. l and 5.

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The hinge seat I) is cut and bent out of the sheet metal forming the flange B; or, if preferred. separate loops or eyes may be riveted to the flange B.

The end of the longer arm of the strap 0, when made of sheet metal, is split vertically, and the two halves are bent at right angles to the strap in opposite direction, so as to form an upper and lower flange, 0 and c. The shorter arm of the strap 0 is provided with a hole, 0, to receive a pin or common nail, N.

lVhen the strap 0 is made of wire,the flanges c and c are formed by bending and counterbending the wire T shape, while the shorter arm terminates in a loop or eye to receive the pin N; or it may be bent so as to form a hook, as shown in Fig. 5, in which case the hook will take the place of the pin N, and the strap 0 will directly engage into the opening a of the stove-pipe A. Further, the hinging together of the strap 0 and the flange B being accomplished by a simple wire or pin, P, or any other suitable interlocking device, the use of costly machinery or workmanship is avoided. y

The device operates in the following marr ner: The flange B being held over the linehole H in the wall 7, with the hinge-point b above the flue-hole and the longer arm of the strap Changing down vertically,the stove-pipe Ais inserted through the flange B into thefluehole H. As the pipe slips into the hole H, it raises the long arm of the strap C until the same lies snugly against the thimble T, with the flange 0 extending up on the back side of the flue-wall, and the end of the pipe A stopping against the flange c. The shorter arm of the strap 0 then extends outward over the upper surface of the pipe A, and is secured to the said pipe A. by inserting a pin or nail, N, into the hole or the loop 0 and a corresponding hole,a,punehed through the pipeA; or when the end of the short arm is hookshaped the hook drops in the hole a. The pipe A is thus firmly secured in its place, the flange c preventing it from slipping farther into the flue, and the hook or pin Npreventing it from slipping out of the flue.

The length of the longer arm ot'the strap 0 varies according to the thickness of the wall N.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In combination with the stove-pipe A, provided Will] the hole a, and the Wall WV,provided with the flue opening H, the stove'pipe flange B, the retainingstrap O, hinged or pivoted thereto and provided with the hole 0, the said strap 0 being divided by the hingeseat into a long lower and ashort upper arm, the flanges c and c at the end of the longer arm, bent as described, and the pin N, for securing the shorter arm to the stove-pipe A, all constructed as described, and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, withthe stove-pipe A, provided with the hole a,and the wall WV, provided with the flue-opening H, of the stove pipe flange B, the strap 0, pivoted or hinged thereto near one of its ends, and being pro. vided with the flanges cand c, and'the hole 0 and the pin N, all arranged and constructed as described, and for the purpose of retaining the stove-pipe A in its proper place in the fine-hole H.

3. As an article of manufaeture,a stove-pipe flange and retainer having the flange B and the strap O,provided with the flanges c and c and the opening 0, the flange Band the strap (3 being hinged together, as described, and for the purpose specified.

4. As an article of manufacture, a stovepipe flange and retainer having an ordinary stove-pipe flange, B, and a retaining-strap, C, said strap 0 being bent of wire to form one long arm terminating in the flanges c and c, and one short arm terminating in an eye, 0, or a hook, as described, the flange B and the strap 0 being hinged or pivoted together, as described, and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification in the'presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ROBERT I. DAGGETT.

Witnesses:

THEODORE LAUGBEIN, CHARLES N UERYE. 

